Category Archives: Standards

Quick and easy IE hack for CSS

Comments (3169) July 26, 2008 – 7:07 am

As you probably know, Internet Explorer has a bad habit of butchering CSS. While working on a project the other day, I came across a quick way to fix CSS that looks great in all browsers except for IE. If you weren’t aware (I wasn’t!), the underscore character preceding any property in a […]

By Nick Moorman | Also posted in Hack, Presentation | Tagged , |

Blank XHTML Template

Comments (17) July 3, 2008 – 9:58 am

You can’t get very far with CSS unless you have some standard HTML. My favorite flavor of hypertext markup is XHTML 1.0 Transitional. Here is a fresh template:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Blank XHTML 1 Transitional Page</title>
</head>
<body>
[…]

By Andrew Mager | Also posted in HTML | Tagged , |

Get rid of that dotted border

Comments (18) June 18, 2008 – 1:08 pm

Many times, when you click on someone’s logo, you see that little dotted border around the image when you click it. I think it looks sloppy.

There is an easy CSS fix for this:

a { outline: none; }

Try it.

By Andrew Mager | Also posted in Presentation | Tagged , , , |

Reset styles

Comments (7) June 16, 2008 – 10:46 am

Kevin Cupp posted earlier about a way to style everything at once using the universal selector (*). That is not my method of choice though because:

It’s too general. I don’t think there should be a rule that applied to EVERY element. Especially margin and padding because those are modified all throughout the cascade.
It’s slower. The […]

By Andrew Mager | Tagged , |
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